From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485392AE.7020501@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0806132238340.728@ikari.dreamhost.com>
Chris Peterson wrote:
> Remove network drivers' last few uses of theoretically-exploitable network
> entropy. Only 12 net drivers are affected. Headless boxes should use a
> more secure source of entropy, such as userspace daemons like rngd,
> clrngd, audio_entropyd, and/or video_entroyd.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>
For what it's worth... I'm keeping this patch in my 'hold' queue,
mainly to see if anyone really puts up some major objections, or fuss.
I'm leaning towards applying it for 2.6.27...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-14 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-14 5:48 [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Chris Peterson
2008-06-14 9:43 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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2009-05-13 5:34 Chris Peterson
2009-05-13 6:08 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-13 7:17 ` Chris Peterson
2009-05-13 14:25 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-13 19:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-05-13 19:55 ` Matt Mackall
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2008-05-29 12:41 ` Martin Wilck
2008-05-29 6:23 Chris Peterson
2008-05-29 10:49 ` Alan Cox
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